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The Halep-Konta match was in the third set. Got a few of them. Lewis also offered a staunch defence of the condition of the grass courts at Wimbledon after several players criticised the surface as not up to scratch. I've actually watched that back quite a few times - I don't know why. "I didn't feel it was unsafe but I felt like it was very soft and slow". "Getting to the stadiums is a challenge so three matches on Centre and One works for us". Read More

Meaning not only has Froome lost a rival in Porte but he also lost a key teammate in Thomas in the same stage. "He had a bit more fear than pain but for the moment it's reassuring as he was conscious and that's the most important thing", said Florence Pommerie, one of the Tour doctors. Read More

Mexico will have to play up to six games to retain the Gold Cup in the USA, starting on Sunday against El Salvador in San Diego. Last Saturday, the 65-year-old certainly liked what he saw in the 1-0 friendly win over Ghana as three players made their US debuts and two (forward Dom Dwyer and midfielder Kellyn Acosta ) scored their first global goals . Read More

This will intensify the worldwide spotlight on Hebron, a city with over 220,000 Palestinians, which is already one of the most contentious hotspots in the West Bank. The vote passed by 12 to three with six abstentions. It enshrines the tombs of Prophet Abraham , his son Isaac , and his grandson Jacob and their wives. Read More

Their match was suspended Friday at 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 1-6, 6-5 due to bad light, with the French 12th seed not wanting to field Querrey's returns of serve in the gloom. In the women's draw, Angelique Kerber made her case to be labelled the new favorite for the Wimbledon title as the German eased into the third round with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Kirsten Flipkens. Read More

Both the McLarens were into Q2, with Daniil Kvyat behind them and Nico Hülkenberg qualifying 11th. Today it is still hard to judge, but the auto is very good and we made some improvements. "From what I've seen on the pre-race strategy notes, that kind of plan is not on those notes", he said. If I did think RedBull where going to race well I may be inclined to look a podium finish at the 5/2, 11/4 mark. Read More

The Grand Slam was also criticized for its court surfaces, with fellow tennis player Kristina Mladenovic revealing that she heard numerous complaints from other players about it. While the American suffered a sickening knee injury playing against Sorana Cirstea in the second round of the women's singles event at Wimbledon 2017, well wishes have poured in from all quarters. Read More

It is a further blow to Hamilton's attempts to close his championship deficit to Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel . Hamilton, victor in Austria previous year, is 14 points behind Ferrari's championship leader Sebastian Vettel after eight races but still has a good chance of going into the August summer break in the lead. Read More

United had been in talks with Real Madrid over a possible deal for Alvaro Morata and saw a number of offers rejected . Both players bring something different, but it's clear they're both superb talents, and either would make an excellent signing for United or Chelsea . Read More

Sagan's Tour hopes were truly ended yesterday after discovering that he was unable to appeal the ruling made by the Commissaires' Panel. The Bora-Hansgrohe team and licence holder Denk insisted Sagan had done nothing wrong, adding that the rider was denied a hearing. Read More

Donglong, the Chinese name of Doka La, is indeed a plateau where the three borders of India, China and Bhutan resides and hence the matter become a three-party one. The region seems to be witnessing quite a few unusual activities of Chinese warships and the vessel deployed in the Indian Ocean is a Yuan class conventional diesel-electric submarine. Read More

The biggest difference between then and now is that Portugal has given permission to Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the team as he welcomed twins. Silva then struck his first worldwide goal after a handball inside the box on 104 minutes, while both sides finished with 10 men as Nelson Semedo was dismissed for Portugal before Raul Jimenez saw red for Mexico . Read More

For the 30-year-old number one seed, it is only his third final of the season and he has achieved it comfortably by not dropping a set throughout, including his 6-4 6-4 semi-final victory over Russian Daniil Medvedev . The world No. 4 begins against Martin Klizan and will hope to put the woes of the past 12 months behind him and look to add to his three Wimbledon crowns. Read More

Warner Bros was impressed and, as was the custom at the time , signed the teenager to a seven-year contract. The suit further claims that Catherine Zeta Jones " portrayal of de Havilland , who was a confidant of Davis', put the 110-year-old actress in "a false light to sensationalize the series'. Read More

Johanna Konta made her third consecutive quarterfinal at the Aegon International in her hometown of Eastbourne, battling past French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in a thrilling third round contest. I came through a very tough day yesterday. "(But) as far as my performance goes, I'm pleased with how I fought back and got myself back into the match". Read More

Typically when someone says they were "stopped by the pigs", they are likely giving a slandering reference to police officers. One group of pigs wandered about half a mile away from the crash scene before they were ushered back by police. Read More

He is 3-0 lifetime versus the White Sox. "I don't think it's that bad", said Castro, who also had a hamstring injury last season, but said past injuries were worse. He flew back to NY for further evaluation. On Wednesday evening, center fielder Dustin Fowler was pulled from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's game at Syracuse, prompting speculation that he might be the latest rookie on his way to join the Yankees for Thursday's series finale at Guaranteed Rate Field. Read More

ROYALS 8, TIGERS 2: At Detroit, Salvador Perez and Mike Moustakas hit consecutive homers during a four-run fourth inning, and Kansas City went on to win. The organization began the day by designating catcher Miguel Montero for assignment for his criticism of Jake Arrieta . The injury to last year's National League MVP occurred in a rather freaky fashion. Read More

But the most decorated player in the room who stole the show. Green, who won Olympic gold in 2016 with Team USA, was named to the NBA All-Defensive Team for the third year in a row, leading all vote-getters with 198 points and 99 first-team votes. Read More

Westbrook led Oklahoma City to 47 wins and the sixth seed in the Western Conference after Kevin Durant left the Thunder and signed with the Golden State Warriors as a free agent. Westbrook joined Oscar Robertson as the only other player to average a triple-double for a season. In what was always expected to be a tight race, with a handful of worthy candidates, Westbrook earned 69 of 100 first-place votes, dominating that category. Read More

However, Ronaldo has not commented on the issue and Karembau believes he won't leave Santiago Bernabeu. I believe that on the pitch we always need Karim, Cristiano, Bale - all of them - because they have won things together, although "Zizou" has the final call. Read More

The game was set up for the Indians to end Mejia's night with one big blow. But Jason Castro doubled to left field, scoring Escobar and Rosario to give Minnesota a 2-0 lead. Cleveland is also 8-1 in Tomlin's last nine Sunday starts, and 2-6 in Tomlin's last eight starts. Rickard scored on a sacrifice fly by Adam Jones. His playing time at first base (21 innings), left field (seven innings) and third base (one inning) furthers his contributions as a flexible option off the bench. Read More

Saric was second in rookie scoring at 12.8 points per game and teamed with Embiid to be the first teammates to make the All-Rookie team since 2008. Center Joel Embiid gave the 76ers two players on the first team, which was rounded out by guard Buddy Hield of the Sacramento Kings and center Willy Hernangomez of the New York Knicks . Read More

The Rockets won 41 games during the 2015-16 season and looked likely to finish among the bottom half of playoff teams this season. The 55 wins tied for the fourth-most in franchise history. Brogdon, who played college ball at Virginia, is the first player to win ACC Player of the Year and NBA Rookie of the Year since Elton Brand in 1999-00. Read More

Van Niekerk is overjoyed at the prospect of supporters back home having the opportunity to watch the team's journey in the competition. I can't tell you how much it means to the team that our games will finally play live on TV for everyone to see. Read More

Last month Kvitova slipped away from Paris with an empty feeling after losing in the second round of the French Open , while Mladenovic became the home star of Roland Garros by ending the title defence of Garbine Muguruza. She then decided to make her return to the tennis court 12 months ago at the 50k ITF tournament in Eastbourne where she managed to reach the semi-finals. Read More

The cladding has since failed all safety checks and prompted a nationwide review of the materials used on everything from hospitals to hotels and apartment blocks. "No they're not", she said. Carl McDowell, 31, said he took one look at the inflatable beds offered on the floor of the leisure center and went back to his own apartment. Read More

Kolhi stressed that he has enormous respect for him as a cricketer and what the latter has doen for the nation. Sharma further said, "There might be some differences (between Kohli and Kumble ) and it is better if keep the talks that happen in dressing room there itself". Read More

Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ allowed one run and four hits in 6 2/3 innings. "Next time out, I've just got to try and limit those". The Blue Jays tied it in top of the seventh when Kevin Pillar homered with two out. "The most important thing for me was winning the World Series here", Morales said. Happ's three flawless innings to open the game and long string of zeroes on the scoreboard were almost matched by Junis, who worked around a handful of hiccups, though he did give up a pair of ... Read More

Thiem had been hoping to sustain momentum after his run to the French Open semi-finals earlier this month but the Austrian's first serve let him down and he paid the price. However, the young shuttler, who has had very little experience on grass at the highest level, might find it hard to match Federer's class in today's big clash. Read More

He left Spain to retake the manager's job at Chelsea , where he won the 2014-15 title but was sacked six months later after losing the support of players. Mendes' agency, Gestifute, released a statement saying Mourinho had not received any official notification about the accusations against him. Ronaldo's Real Madrid future was in doubt when it was reported in the media that the star forward was unsettled at Real Madrid . Read More

Widespread reports have claimed that the four-time Ballon d'Or victor is keen to leave Spain due to accusations that he has avoided paying tax between 2011 and 2014. Ronaldo is now under official investigation and will have to appear in the Pozuelo de Alarcon court No. 1 on July 31. Perez's reign at the club has been relatively successful as the club won their 3rd UEFA Champions League title in four years. Read More

Mexico claimed their first win at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup , after coming from behind to secure a 2-1 victory over New Zealand on Wednesday evening. Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi . "All the players are concentrated and Cristiano Ronaldo is extremely concentrated with the Russian game tomorrow, which we will play", Santos said at a press conference, where he was asked to address Ronaldo's situation and reply in English. Read More

Defender Carlos Salcedo got his feet tangled with New Zealand forward Chris Wood and crashed into the ground, appearing to injure his shoulder or elbow. Talavera came up huge again in the 27th minute on a controversial play. "I apologize, my words were wrong", Osorio said through a translator. "The game was really rough and violent". Read More

The first trophy of the National Hockey League awards show has been handed out to Connor McDavid . Also, Nashville Predators general manager David Poile was named the NHL's top executive, and Columbus coach John Tortorella has won the Jack Adams Award as the top coach. Read More

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